Trace buckle



May 20 ,.1924. 1,495,035:

c. H. NIX

TRACE BUCKLE Filed May 9, 1922 Patented May 20, 1924.

ITED TATES CHARLES H. NIX, OF PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

TRACE BUCKLE.

Application filed May 9,

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES H. NIX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ponca City, in the county of Kay and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trace Buckles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to trace buckles and has for an object to provide a buckle for I connecting together the short and long traces of a. harness and connecting with the back band and belly band, and presenting new and improved features of convenience, re-

liability and strength.

A further object of the invention is to provide a trace buckle especially adapted for heavy traces presenting a a plurality of tongues for engaging perforations of the trace in an improved manner.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel parts, elements, constructions and combinations, as shown in the drawings and as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the improved buckle shown in operative position upon a harness;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the buckle disassoeiated from its harness connection;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through the buckle and through one of the studs.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the I several news.

The improved trace buckle which forms At its opposite ends the buckle is prov 1922. Serial No. 559,664.

vided with loops composed of upstanding through the loops from one side to the other I of the buckle, preferably with the short trace in engagement with the plate 10 and the long trace upon the outside of the short trace, althoughit is obvious that tlie'relation of the two traces may be reversed if custom or exigencies of the use make it necessary or desirable.

The plate 10 is provided with two upstanding studs 21 spaced apart transversely of the plate in such position as to engage in perforations 22 of the short trace and like and registering perforations 23 of the long trace. Either or both of these traces may be provided with a plurality of such groups of perforations so that either or both may be moved longitudinally within the buckle by forming a loop of the material and moving it longitudinally within the loops of the buckle until the perforations of the trace coincide with the studs 21, whereupon the loop of the trace will be reduced to a plane, impaling the traces upon such studs.

That I claim to be new is:

A trace buckle comprising a plain plate having parallel slots adjacent its opposite margins, loops formed on opposite sides adacent the marginscontaining the slots, said loops each comprising spaced arms integral with and perpendicular to the plate and a connecting integral bar in a plane spaced from and parallel with the plane of the plate, and spaced studs rigidly upstanding from the plate arranged on a line parallel with the bars.

In testimony whereof I hereunto atiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. NIX. Witnesses OWEN L. MILLER, F. L. NIX. 

